zeprock2
Well-Known Member
So i have been brewing all grain for about a year and have been using a 10 gal cooler to mash with bazooka screen. I want to make bigger batches so I converted a keg with a false bottom. Since I moved to the keggle my efficiency has been way off. With the cooler I was getting around 75% eff. Now with the keggle I am getting 65% eff or lower. My temperature seems to be consistent during mashing, my grain crush is good, so I dont know what changed. The only thing I can think of is that there is that gap under the false bottom and that is messing with my numbers. Has anyone else ran into this? Is there a way to account for this? My thinking is that when I put my strike water in the keggle some hot water is under the false bottom and the grain never touches it. So when I sparge later, my wort is getting watered down..